Product Portfolio Director

Product Portfolio Director

Reading/Exeter/Kent/Brighton (Remote/Hybrid)

Hiring Manager: Tim Hughes

Closing Date 10th February 2025

The Opportunity

We are looking for a Product Portfolio Director whose key objective will be to set best practice in product strategy, prioritisation, delivery, Go to Market and Value Realisation, and to provide guidance to group businesses in implementing this to the benefit of their P&L. You will be instrumental in identifying group synergies and opportunities to collaborate that will help to achieve Landmark’s strategic objective of offering holistic solutions for property transaction.

The role will involve:

• Owning the creation and management of Landmark Information Group Product Roadmap, unifying contributions from all divisions to provide a single view that can drive portfolio convergence.
• Ownership of P&L and day to day business alignment of a range of products spanning the house buying lifecycle with different scale, value propositions and engineering profiles.
• Providing leadership to the Divisional Heads of Product, identifying opportunities for collaboration between divisions as well as propagation of best practice. Fostering a culture of evidence-based insight that fuels innovation and drives best practice in divisional Product Teams.
• Being responsible for growing and sharpening product targeting and value models
• Continually reviewing and developing a team structure that will provide optimal speed/cost/quality outcomes as well as succession planning and development.
• Working with our Head of Engineering to provide management oversight to key product initiatives, including new product development, product transformation and technical debt reduction
• Owning the business stakeholder relationship to ensure clear adaption to evolving requirements and consistent reporting and delivery metrics

About You

To be successful as the Product Portfolio Director you will have proven Product Management experience alongside experience of product portfolio integration across multiple divisions. You must have significant experience of Product Management in a senior role with a proven track record of delivering high performance applications.

You will also have/be:

• Able to present complex ideas to all levels in a persuasive and convincing manner
• A subject matter expert and have wider business knowledge
• Market research and competitor analysis skills
• Experience in delivering extensive and complex product solutions with a fundamental understanding of Sales Force
• Strong analytics skills and the ability to balance the use of data with qualitive finds to make key product related decisions
• Ability to unite and inspire the organisation behind a clear product vision
• Strong influencing skills; have the ability to motivate without organisational authority
• Experience of managing Go to Market campaigns and promoting both internally and externally
• Experience of managing digital products in the property sector
• Experience of working within the land and property sector is essential.